Alternate Reality Drabbles

Based on English Dub of the DBZ episodes

Disclaimer: Nope...I got nothin'. They aren't mine...except in my dreams :)

IMPORTANT: Remeber folks the characters I'm portraying here come from my first fic "Alternate Reality", and I'm just rewriting parts of the show so it all fits into my universe better. If you haven't read my first fic I suggest you do.

WARNINGS: Serious spoilers for the show and OOC Vegeta.

Episode 213 – The Dark Prince Returns

WC: 1,248

AN: Here's the climax people. Vegeta goes Majin...ahhhhhh nooooo. Well that's how it is. Poor Vegeta has some serious self-esteem issues. Like I said before this whole sequence is based off of an idea I got from watching "Sukisyo." I'll explain more at the end of the chapter, I don't want to ruin for everyone.

Enjoy. On with the story...

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"They're definitely up to something, but what," Gohan asked powering down. One moment he's fighting for his life and the next his opponent withdraws. And the Demon King was winning…it didn't make sense.

"This whole thing would have been over by now, I thought I taught you better than that Gohan," Vegeta shouted, walking up to his eldest son. "I hope you're proud of yourself. That was not how a man with Saiyan blood running through his veins fight. I've always said you should never let your feelings blind you. You're supposed to channel that anger into making you stronger instead of fighting like an untrained fool."

"Pops," Gohan whispered, hurt by his words.

"Dabura should be dead right now and he would be if you hadn't let yourself focus on getting revenge. I know you're upset but that's a pitiful excuse for fighting the way you did. You should have given it your all right from the start instead of trying to make that bastard suffer. Piccolo and Krillin would be back to normal if you had done what you were supposed to do."

Gohan's eyes watered and he hung his head, knowing deep down his Papa was right. What had he done, Piccolo and Krillin would be back to normal if he had been more focused.

"Hey look," Goku spoke up. "Gohan didn't know that Dabura was gonna run off. I'm sure he would have wanted one of us to fight for him if he knew."

"That's not my point Kakarot. Gohan put himself in unnecessary danger when he could have just finished if from the beginning. Don't you dare make excuses for him. He needs to learn from his mistakes. He's a warrior Kakarot, just like you and me. You can't coddle him all the time," Vegeta said as he turned on his lover.

He trembled in his anger and frustration. His son was almost killed and his lover was taking it so lightly. He would take action then and make sure there were no casualties today. "I'm tired of playing around. I'm going to put an end to this thing once and for all," Vegeta said, pointing a hand to the floor and charging up an energy blast.

"Vegeta, what are you doing," Goku asked desperately.

"No more excuses. I'm taking control of this operation now and for starters I'm going to blow this ship to kingdom come," Vegeta shouted, energy blast growing in intensity.

"You can't," the Supreme Kai shouted. "You'll most certainly revive Buu. He's pure evil Vegeta, you can't handle him. He'll turn the Earth into a lifeless tomb; no one will survive his destruction. I'm begging you."

Vegeta growled at the Supreme Kai, mind and body at war trying to decide what he should do.

Goku was in front of Vegeta in an instant, grabbing his arm to stop him from blowing up the ship. The two lovers stared at each other for a moment before Goku pulled Vegeta into his arms, stroking his hair and back to try and calm the trembling body in his embrace. "Let's put what happened behind us and move forward from here," he whispered, feeling Vegeta's body relaxing in his arms.

Goku understood Vegeta was scared for Gohan and the others but that didn't mean he should take such drastic measures to protect them. "Alright Kakarot," Vegeta mumbled, retuning the embrace and burying his face into his lover's chest, inhaling deeply to calm his nerves.

Vegeta took a step back after a few moments, feeling his negative feeling dissipate with every loving touch Goku bestowed upon him. "Whatever you say," he whispered and turned his back to the group, doing his best to once more bury the darker side of his heart.

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It started off with a brush against his mind. It was cold and dark but it grew in intensity so quickly he had no time to protect himself. It wrapped around his mind, a disgusting slime that seeped into every crevice in his head. His hands automatically grabbed his hair and he screamed. 'No, get out, stay away,' his mind screamed, blind to the world around him.

A dark venomous voice spoke as his mind was grabbed in a bruising hold. It whispered about the evil in his heart, how he had taken pleasure in hurting others, how he had destroyed whole worlds without batting an eyelash. 'It was my duty,' he thought back. 'I had no choice.' But the voice silkily murmured that while that was the case he had still enjoyed it, delighting in causing suffering and grief.

'I was just trying to deal with my own pain,' he cried in his head. No, if he wanted to deal with his pain he would have tried to hurt the one who caused his suffering, the voice replied. He was a coward, a coward to hurt others to make himself feel better.

Vegeta screamed until his throat was raw, and then he screamed some more, trying to deny the accusations. It wasn't him who had taking that pleasure in hurting others; it was someone he created to deal with everything so his heart could be protected. It wasn't him.

People around him were trying to talk to him but Vegeta couldn't hear them. The voice had striped him naked and bared his sins to the world which drowned out the world around him.

He felt the cold darkness spreading, sinking down into his body. He knew that if he let it reach his heart it would bring forth the man he had once been but never wanted to be again. He would become that which he had always feared, a monster, an evil treacherous creature whom no one could love. He tried to push the darkness away, but it was so hard and he was brought to his knees as the voice whispered every sin he had ever committed. He tried to summon the light that his lover and sons and friends had given him but he couldn't. he couldn't find the good in himself anymore because he was drowning in the bad.

In a last ditch effort he tried powering up and forcing the evil from his body but that was a mistake. That darkness just absorbed that energy and threw it back at Vegeta and the Saiyan Prince realized he was fighting himself now…and he was losing.

The blackness reached his heart and wrapped the fragile organ in a blanket of evil and the loving father and friend he had been was tossed to the back of his consciousness and the Dark Prince he had buried long ago came back with a vengeance.

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"What have you done? The Vegeta I know and love would have never done that," Goku said, body shaking at what he had witnessed…seeing his lover kill hundreds of people with a single blast.

"It seems you don't know me very well, do you Kakarot," the Dark Prince purred, squashing the side of him that was trying to fight the dark influence out of his mind. He was in charge now, he had waited a long time for this opportunity and he would not let the goodie-two-shoes he had become ruin it. He wanted to fight Kakarot, and prove who was the strongest once and for all. No more words of tenderness and love now, they couldn't help, they just made the prince weak. He and Kakarot were just two warriors now, nothing more.

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Hope you liked it (I know it's short...sorry), the next few chapters deal with this idea I got from "Sukisyo". In that show these boys are captured by scientists and (for lack of a better word) tortured, and to survive they make an alternate personality that could handle the stress and keep their true personality unscratched. I thought this was a way Vegeta might have dealt with Freeza, and that darker personality he had just got buried in the back of his consciousness when he no longer needed it to protect himself, but it's still there. I hope this makes sense for everyone, it was an idea I had and I ran with it.

Tell me what ya'll think, does it work? Reviews are most appreciated, good or bad. Expect the next chapter in a few days.

TTFN